sarah bennett wrote:

> jake wrote:
>
>> When I was living in Germany, waiters actually always asked: split or
>> separate? With separate being the most common answer. I like that. I
>> you wanted to buy the other person's stuff, it looked better than in
>> your usual scenario, by the sound of it.
>>
>
> I have been to a few restaraunts where they wouldn't let us split the
> check; we had to do the math ourselves if we wanted to split it up
> properly.
>
>
That is common, yes. But it still isn't considered strange to split the
check.